Continuing claims for jobless benefits are trending up consistently over last two months. Where will all the workers go? How many barista's do we need?
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@ed The Arnold-Bot will make dinner while saying 'Pasta La Vista' over and over again till you ask him to turn it down already.
About time for the H1B guy to start spewing again...
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@b3 Instead of 'I'll be back', the Arnold-Bot will be like 'No Problemo, I'll Wash Your Back'
@am Keep in mind that those robots will be online too, so recording everything that happens wherever they are.
That'll make Roombas (wandering around the house, sending camera images to the cloud) seem quaint.
Be a bit paranoid.
@b3 https://nurse.org/articles/nurse-robots/
We will have to make do with Pillsbury Doughboy or Michelin Bibendum. Skynet is not ready to send us Arnold yet !
@am True the robots can do nursing, if you are ok with having Arnold Schwarzenegger help you take a shower.
@ac The only winning move is not to play.
What do you mean high tech
Code monkeys being paid 350k to push unit tests?
@ae If surgery can be automated, the nursing can be automated as well. A humanoid robot can can certainly do some nursing work. No human touch for anything anymore. Will be a sad future, but we appear to be going there anyways.
I saw a robot a couple of years back in an ordinary restaurant which brought us food and the check. That robot can be used to recognize voice commands / keypad commands from bed bound patients, then go fetch whatever the patient asked for.
All us boomers will need nursing care, just be sure to work on those back muscles or risk becoming disabled.
It's not that much different than constantly wiping down parts of a tool, just squishier.
@ac The only way to win.
@ae Learn to plumb.
@a8 no kidding. Some news outlet needs to do an Expose about why do we have so many H1b employees while laying off so many citizens.
@a5 The problem is, what skills do you learn? Jobs that focus on "soft skills" like communications, HR, education, psychotherapists, etc. are being replaced by AI. Medical doctors and other diagnosticians will be replaced by AI, surgeons and dentists by robots down the road. Nurses might survive... maybe. Skilled trades are good for now, but even those industries are looking for ways to automate.
I retired, and will soon live off grid like Stephen Falken.
How many H1Bs do we need when americans are getting laid off?
Only going to get worse as the capital owners in this country want to replace all human workers with AI!
Automation. Ai, Robots, look at all the news, many technical workers will not have anywhere to go, unless you find a mom and pop shop or go into something other than the tech industry. My advice, go back to school and learn a new skill, the three future technologies I've mentionec above are taking over your jobs. Just look at Acxenture buying Automation software to take over Semiconductors to transition to automation as well as Anazon, Amazon has 75% of their warehouse processes done by robots now.